Most HFA-using patients state that they cannot "feel" the aerosol or that it doesn't work nearly as well as the CFC-based ones.*
(*From my professional experience.)
Is this a psychological effect --- or can you point to any clinical studies?
Microsoft should learn from the Sony disaster. Let the geeks use their Linux and they won't try to attack your servers.
Linux on the PlayStation is still dead.
Attack the console servers and it is the console fans who be reaching for their pitchforks, the tar and feathers. There are more of them than there are of you.
Today you can throw Linux on any old hardware, and do something useful with it. 5-10 years from now, you'll have to specifically hunt down unlocked hardware. This has a rather drastic effect on the utility of Linux, which is Microsoft's intention.
Thirty years of dirt cheap retrograde hardware has translated into a 1% share for Linux on the desktop.
53% for the iOS in mobile.
In theory you can throw Linux on any old hardware. But the OS and the applications it will run will have much the same flavor as an OSX or Windows PC of the same vintage.
I make a very decent salary for a 30-something with only partial-college education. what I have that makes me worthwhile to employers is half a decade of professional experience, and nearly two decades of non-professional experience, in my field of choice
But you have been very careful not to tell us exactly what it is you do --- or whether your job would even exist without the graduate or post-graduate students who came before you and are five to ten years ahead of you now.
a 30-something with...half a decade of professional experience and nearly two decades of non-professional experience
Stand up to the MafiAA, stand up to the abusive assholes at Sony, stand up to abusive cops who don't like the idea of being caught on video shooting a handcuffed homeless guy in the back, caught beating up a special ed kid, or try to get a 75-year charge on someone for recording them.
No sense of proportion, a culture of victimhood.
The MafiAA, as some like to call it, simply stands between the geek and his free movie fix and the ego boost that comes with sharing files with 15,000 of your closest friends on the P2P nets.
After 23 nights, an area near the county courthouse steps is filled with sleeping bags, coolers, food, books, backpacks and other personal belongings campers have brought with them.
There are grown-ups signing these licensing deals.
Companies like General Dynamics. the six largest defense contractor in the world.
General Dynamics Itronix makes the GD300, a portable computer running Android software for the military to use in the field. It can be worn on the wrist or the chest, it uses GPS and it can be connected to tactical radios. It has a touchscreen that soldiers can use even if they are wearing gloves. The device runs chips designed by ARM.
The Sectera Edge devices the Air Force is acquiring have their own security built in. The smartphones support the Secure Communications Interoperability Protocol (SCIP) and thus interoperable with the more than 350,000 devices that use it.
The devices also are certified to provide secure data communications that the military classifies as "secret" or less, as well as secure voice communications classified as "top secret" and less. Additionally, it is compliant with the High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor Interoperability Specification (HAIPEIS) for interoperability with in-line encryption devices that secure information on the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) the DOD and State Department use to transmit classified information, according to General Dynamics.
Casio, best known for its watches and calculators, has 11,000 employees and revenues of $4.6 billion a year.
The company was founded in the darkest days of postwar industry for Japan. It is quite capable of fighting its own battles and not as weak as a kittten.
People know that a Honda Civic is a car (and not toothpaste nor cooking oil nor guitar amplifier) even though the name has no relationship whatsoever with transportation.
They know because enormous sums are spent on marketing the product.
Lighting gets a passsing mention on Slashdot. The car, James Bond and the Super Bowl.
Doctors do not cure. Not in America. They treat. They can't make a money off of you for as long as you live if they cure you. If they treat you, they can milk you until you die.
Why does something so stupid always modded up to "Insightful?"
The cure means that your patients have a real shot at rebuilding their lives and finances. It means that they will be a candidate for other medical services for perhaps the next half century or more.
The cure opens the door to the understanding and treatment of other diseases.
The cure is elusive. The cure may have side effects. The cure may dangerous. The surgical procedure that a weakened patient may not survive.
The geek doesn't want medicine.
What he wants is magic and miracle at a discount price.
The problem is no one smart would be allowed to stay on the Jury... a hint of intelligence disqualifies you these days...
No.
It is the geek who doesn't have the smarts.
The juror is middle aged, middle class, small-C conservative.
He has deep roots in his home district. He takes the oath in good faith. He is serious about what he has come to do --- and the most serious mistake you can make is to waste his time and insult his intelligence.
He is a man who understands and values intangible property rights. That is how he makes his living, after all. How he plans for his retirement. The kids' college education.
His philosophy can be summed up in five simple words:
"Hmm yeah he put some songs up for download, that's 22,500 dollars each."
It is an unlicensed, unlimited, wholesale redistribution. That is why statutory damages come into play.
If it had been possible to watermark his uploads and trace every download this geek would not have fared any better. There is a very good chance he would have been hit even harder, and I think everyone here knows that.
Kazaa made it very easy and very tempting for the uploader to boast about being the ultimate - the reliable - source for a particular product. You could browse the shared files folders of other users. You could see who had the bandwidth.
more than a quarter of the people I know now use either OpenOffice or LibreOffice thanks to that clusterfuck. And I expect that ratio will increase as it becomes more mainstream.
It is always a quarter of the people you know.
But six of the top twenty-five software bestsellers at Amazon.com for the PC and the Mac are current versions of MS Office, retail boxed.
That is an enormous vote of confidence in The Ribbon.
YOU AND THE SONY ENTITIES AGREE THAT ANY CLAIM FILED BY YOU OR BY A SONY ENTITY IN SMALL CLAIMS COURT ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE ARBITRATION TERMS CONTAINED IN THIS SECTION 15.
RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF BINDING ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER WITHIN 30 DAYS.
IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THE BINDING ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER IN THIS SECTION 15, YOU MUST NOTIFY SNEI IN WRITING WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE DATE THAT YOU ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT. YOUR WRITTEN NOTIFICATION MUST BE MAILED TO 6080 CENTER DRIVE, 10TH FLOOR, LOS ANGELES, CA 90045, ATTN: LEGAL DEPARTMENT/ARBITRATION AND MUST INCLUDE: (1) YOUR NAME, (2) YOUR ADDRESS, (3) YOUR PSN ACCOUNT NUMBER, IF YOU HAVE ONE, AND (4) A CLEAR STATEMENT THAT YOU DO NOT WISH TO RESOLVE DISPUTES WITH ANY SONY ENTITY THROUGH ARBITRATION.
I apologize for the capitalization, but this is how it appears in the PDF.
The successful class action lawsuit demands a major investment in time, money and legal talent. It moves through the courts slowly. The return to any individual claimant is often quite trivial.
If you need to use a plugin, you can push a button and be taken to the desktop version of IE.
And if you want Spotify or Netflix running under Metro, you will simply download the Netflix or Spotify app. The underlying tech --- including DRM --- will be invisible to the user.
This is a problem best solved with a severe (but non-fatal and non-permanently injurious) beating by one of the family members of the victim. That punishment is both less harsh and likely much more effective than having your activity on the Internet be severely restricted and monitored for years on end.
I find this proposition quite remarkably stupid and quintessentially geek.
Expecting an enraged father to recover his self- control once he has begun beating a creep like this to a pulp is nonsense. The world doesn't work that way.
That is why the law tries to take private vengence out of the picture and legal penalties are meant to hurt.
Of course such downtown areas will be shitty and imbalanced if you only have downtowns where nobody lives, and people only come from the suburbs to work there from 0900 to 1700 on weekdays.
But if you do it sensibly, like is done in Europe, Asia and even American-like countries like Canada and Australia, you end up with excellent areas that are very livable. People end up living downtown, rather than just working there.
With the exception of Manhattan Island, American cities have never approached the densities common in Europe and Asia.
They are very young, most of them. The creation of the steamboat, the railroad, the streetcar and the automobile. Suburbanization began early. That is why you build the Brooklyn Bridge.
When the Jewish immigrant on the Lower East Side spoke of moving his family into "better rooms," this is what he meant.
The incredibly livable, dense, American "downtown" you imagine has always been more than half fantasy.
I haven't seen anyone talking about the elephant in the room: Just who would stand to profit from manufacturing FUD surrounding Linux as a result of security breaches?
Alfred Pennyworth: A long time ago, I was in Burma...working for the local government.... One day I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.
Bruce Wayne: Then why steal them?
Alfred Pennyworth: Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
The way I see it is that tax breaks go into the pockets of the well connected rich and they do all the hiring overseas.
Entertainment is deeply rooted in language, geography and culture. The Avengers. James Bond. Harry Potter. Dr. Who. Unmistakably British. In script, story, setting and performance.
While wage scales and other incentives may make it somewhat cheaper to build your principal sets in Vancouver or record your musical score in London, the results are often quite mixed.
Run a Tor exit node and open up a guest wireless connection that anyone can use.
"Plausible deniability" doesn't have the same meaning to the middle aged, middle class, judge or juror as it does to the eternerally adolescent P2P geek.
Often it translates simply as "Who does that jerk think he is kidding?"
I live west of a state park that closes at sunset. To the east more greenspace. If late night downloads to this IP address are time-stamped the culprit almost certainly has to be me.
He has an affinity for downloading material that is extremely popular and high-risk.
Who owns the primary Internet account? Who holds the lease on the apartment? Who is the head of household? The responsible adult here?
If the answer to any of those questions is you, you have a problem, but you also - quite literally - hold the key to the solution. You can tell your roomate to stop and you can make it stick.
"High risk" suggests many possibilities. If your roomate is trading in hard core porn over your shared connection, a raid by the ICE or FBI is not out of the question.
You do not want to be caught up in anything like that, even as the presumptively innocent bystander.
Maybe not such a great marketing move. I wonder how Microsoft would react to much higher than expected numbers of Linux boxes. In the distant past, Linux was waved off on the desktop side as a hobbyist or novelty platform...
It doesn't matter whether you look at the webstats from Net Applications. StatCounter, W3Schools, or any other reasonably credible, recognizable, source.
It doesn't matter if you look at the global numbers or a breakdown by region.
The numbers for the traditional community-oriented Linux desktop distribution are all eminently lousy.
If these were the trend lines for your grandmother in hospital, the doctors would be telling you it is time to let go.
The fundamentals never change.
Apple and Microsoft hit the ground running in the late seventies and early eighties.
Collectively, they have sixty years of experience serving the needs of the non-technical end user and a 99% share of the desktop by most measures.
Amazon.com alone returns 79,000 hits in a search for "Windows software." Gog.com is republishing for Win 7 every MS-DOS and PC game it can its hands on. 300 or so to date.
It is damn hard to compete with numbers like these ---
and it is time the geek learned that "Free as in Beer" is over-rated.
FOSS programs even remotely of interest to the masses are routinely ported to Windows or begin as native Windows apps.
To be perfectly blunt about this, the Linux repository has nothing in stock the typical Windows user doesn't already have or can find more easily elsewhere --- and he won't be moved by talk of ideological purity or political correctness.
It is not too much of a stretch to say that has become all but impossible to fund or staff development of a complex and truly compettive desktop application without the port to Windows.
97% of the funding for the Moz Foundation comes from the add-click. From its placement on the Windows desktop, for all practical purposes.
Slashdot Mirror
Most HFA-using patients state that they cannot "feel" the aerosol or that it doesn't work nearly as well as the CFC-based ones.*
(*From my professional experience.)
Is this a psychological effect --- or can you point to any clinical studies?
The propellant, after all, is not the medication.
Microsoft should learn from the Sony disaster. Let the geeks use their Linux and they won't try to attack your servers.
Linux on the PlayStation is still dead.
Attack the console servers and it is the console fans who be reaching for their pitchforks, the tar and feathers. There are more of them than there are of you.
Tens of millions more of them than you.
Today you can throw Linux on any old hardware, and do something useful with it. 5-10 years from now, you'll have to specifically hunt down unlocked hardware. This has a rather drastic effect on the utility of Linux, which is Microsoft's intention.
Thirty years of dirt cheap retrograde hardware has translated into a 1% share for Linux on the desktop.
53% for the iOS in mobile.
In theory you can throw Linux on any old hardware. But the OS and the applications it will run will have much the same flavor as an OSX or Windows PC of the same vintage.
I make a very decent salary for a 30-something with only partial-college education. what I have that makes me worthwhile to employers is half a decade of professional experience, and nearly two decades of non-professional experience, in my field of choice
But you have been very careful not to tell us exactly what it is you do --- or whether your job would even exist without the graduate or post-graduate students who came before you and are five to ten years ahead of you now.
a 30-something with...half a decade of professional experience and nearly two decades of non-professional experience
A 30-something with 25 years of experience?
Stand up to the MafiAA, stand up to the abusive assholes at Sony, stand up to abusive cops who don't like the idea of being caught on video shooting a handcuffed homeless guy in the back, caught beating up a special ed kid, or try to get a 75-year charge on someone for recording them.
No sense of proportion, a culture of victimhood.
The MafiAA, as some like to call it, simply stands between the geek and his free movie fix and the ego boost that comes with sharing files with 15,000 of your closest friends on the P2P nets.
There is nothing of greater threat to national security than a HOMELESS hacker.
Homeless doesn't mean "unskilled." It may simply mean "unemployable." Morris County shelters see growing number of white-collar professionals becoming homeless
But are we looking at deep poverty here or a cyberpunk fantasy?
Feds: Homeless Computer Hacker Launched 'Anonymous' Attack Over Anti-Camping Law
After 23 nights, an area near the county courthouse steps is filled with sleeping bags, coolers, food, books, backpacks and other personal belongings campers have brought with them.
Homeless campers plead with Santa Cruz city leaders to change sleeping law
Sounds exactly like extortion to me.
There are grown-ups signing these licensing deals.
Companies like General Dynamics. the six largest defense contractor in the world.
General Dynamics Itronix makes the GD300, a portable computer running Android software for the military to use in the field. It can be worn on the wrist or the chest, it uses GPS and it can be connected to tactical radios. It has a touchscreen that soldiers can use even if they are wearing gloves. The device runs chips designed by ARM.
General Dynamics Itronix will pay Microsoft to use Google Android
The Sectera Edge devices the Air Force is acquiring have their own security built in. The smartphones support the Secure Communications Interoperability Protocol (SCIP) and thus interoperable with the more than 350,000 devices that use it.
The devices also are certified to provide secure data communications that the military classifies as "secret" or less, as well as secure voice communications classified as "top secret" and less. Additionally, it is compliant with the High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor Interoperability Specification (HAIPEIS) for interoperability with in-line encryption devices that secure information on the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) the DOD and State Department use to transmit classified information, according to General Dynamics.
Air Force Brass Get Secure Smartphones
Casio, best known for its watches and calculators, has 11,000 employees and revenues of $4.6 billion a year.
The company was founded in the darkest days of postwar industry for Japan. It is quite capable of fighting its own battles and not as weak as a kittten.
People know that a Honda Civic is a car (and not toothpaste nor cooking oil nor guitar amplifier) even though the name has no relationship whatsoever with transportation.
They know because enormous sums are spent on marketing the product.
Lighting gets a passsing mention on Slashdot. The car, James Bond and the Super Bowl.
Doctors do not cure. Not in America. They treat. They can't make a money off of you for as long as you live if they cure you. If they treat you, they can milk you until you die.
Why does something so stupid always modded up to "Insightful?"
The cure means that your patients have a real shot at rebuilding their lives and finances. It means that they will be a candidate for other medical services for perhaps the next half century or more.
The cure opens the door to the understanding and treatment of other diseases.
The cure is elusive. The cure may have side effects. The cure may dangerous. The surgical procedure that a weakened patient may not survive.
The geek doesn't want medicine.
What he wants is magic and miracle at a discount price.
Windows Power User = knows how to change the default wallpaper, but can't code.
The user is rarely a coder. That is never going to change.
The operating systems that best serve the needs of users are the ones that see mass market adoption ----
and keep armies of programmers gainfully employed.
and since practically everyone nowadays carry sophisticated personal radio beacons (aka "cell phones")
There is the problem of battery life. Signal penetration through tons of rubble. Transponders out of service and so on.
The problem is no one smart would be allowed to stay on the Jury... a hint of intelligence disqualifies you these days...
No.
It is the geek who doesn't have the smarts.
The juror is middle aged, middle class, small-C conservative.
He has deep roots in his home district. He takes the oath in good faith. He is serious about what he has come to do --- and the most serious mistake you can make is to waste his time and insult his intelligence.
He is a man who understands and values intangible property rights. That is how he makes his living, after all. How he plans for his retirement. The kids' college education.
His philosophy can be summed up in five simple words:
"There is no free lunch."
"Hmm yeah he put some songs up for download, that's 22,500 dollars each."
It is an unlicensed, unlimited, wholesale redistribution. That is why statutory damages come into play.
If it had been possible to watermark his uploads and trace every download this geek would not have fared any better. There is a very good chance he would have been hit even harder, and I think everyone here knows that.
Kazaa made it very easy and very tempting for the uploader to boast about being the ultimate - the reliable - source for a particular product. You could browse the shared files folders of other users. You could see who had the bandwidth.
Kazaa was as transparent as plate glass window.
more than a quarter of the people I know now use either OpenOffice or LibreOffice thanks to that clusterfuck. And I expect that ratio will increase as it becomes more mainstream.
It is always a quarter of the people you know.
But six of the top twenty-five software bestsellers at Amazon.com for the PC and the Mac are current versions of MS Office, retail boxed.
That is an enormous vote of confidence in The Ribbon.
Exclusions from Arbitration.
YOU AND THE SONY ENTITIES AGREE THAT ANY CLAIM FILED BY YOU OR BY A SONY ENTITY IN SMALL CLAIMS COURT ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE ARBITRATION TERMS CONTAINED IN THIS SECTION 15.
RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF BINDING ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER WITHIN 30 DAYS.
IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THE BINDING ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER IN THIS SECTION 15, YOU MUST NOTIFY SNEI IN WRITING WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE DATE THAT YOU ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT. YOUR WRITTEN NOTIFICATION MUST BE MAILED TO 6080 CENTER DRIVE, 10TH FLOOR, LOS ANGELES, CA 90045, ATTN: LEGAL DEPARTMENT/ARBITRATION AND MUST INCLUDE: (1) YOUR NAME, (2) YOUR ADDRESS, (3) YOUR PSN ACCOUNT NUMBER, IF YOU HAVE ONE, AND (4) A CLEAR STATEMENT THAT YOU DO NOT WISH TO RESOLVE DISPUTES WITH ANY SONY ENTITY THROUGH ARBITRATION.
I apologize for the capitalization, but this is how it appears in the PDF.
Terms of Service Agreement
You have to be realistic:
The successful class action lawsuit demands a major investment in time, money and legal talent. It moves through the courts slowly. The return to any individual claimant is often quite trivial.
If you need to use a plugin, you can push a button and be taken to the desktop version of IE.
And if you want Spotify or Netflix running under Metro, you will simply download the Netflix or Spotify app. The underlying tech --- including DRM --- will be invisible to the user.
This is a problem best solved with a severe (but non-fatal and non-permanently injurious) beating by one of the family members of the victim. That punishment is both less harsh and likely much more effective than having your activity on the Internet be severely restricted and monitored for years on end.
I find this proposition quite remarkably stupid and quintessentially geek.
Expecting an enraged father to recover his self- control once he has begun beating a creep like this to a pulp is nonsense. The world doesn't work that way.
That is why the law tries to take private vengence out of the picture and legal penalties are meant to hurt.
Of course such downtown areas will be shitty and imbalanced if you only have downtowns where nobody lives, and people only come from the suburbs to work there from 0900 to 1700 on weekdays.
But if you do it sensibly, like is done in Europe, Asia and even American-like countries like Canada and Australia, you end up with excellent areas that are very livable. People end up living downtown, rather than just working there.
The average price for an apartment condo in Toronto is $355,513 CDN. The detached home $597,593 CDN. Detached home values in Toronto plunge, condo prices rise [August 18]
With the exception of Manhattan Island, American cities have never approached the densities common in Europe and Asia.
They are very young, most of them. The creation of the steamboat, the railroad, the streetcar and the automobile. Suburbanization began early. That is why you build the Brooklyn Bridge.
When the Jewish immigrant on the Lower East Side spoke of moving his family into "better rooms," this is what he meant.
The incredibly livable, dense, American "downtown" you imagine has always been more than half fantasy.
I haven't seen anyone talking about the elephant in the room: Just who would stand to profit from manufacturing FUD surrounding Linux as a result of security breaches?
Alfred Pennyworth: A long time ago, I was in Burma...working for the local government. ... One day I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.
Bruce Wayne: Then why steal them?
Alfred Pennyworth: Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
The way I see it is that tax breaks go into the pockets of the well connected rich and they do all the hiring overseas.
Entertainment is deeply rooted in language, geography and culture. The Avengers. James Bond. Harry Potter. Dr. Who. Unmistakably British. In script, story, setting and performance.
While wage scales and other incentives may make it somewhat cheaper to build your principal sets in Vancouver or record your musical score in London, the results are often quite mixed.
Your post has not convinced me to give up Linux at all..
It wasn't meant to.
Run a Tor exit node and open up a guest wireless connection that anyone can use.
"Plausible deniability" doesn't have the same meaning to the middle aged, middle class, judge or juror as it does to the eternerally adolescent P2P geek.
Often it translates simply as "Who does that jerk think he is kidding?"
I live west of a state park that closes at sunset. To the east more greenspace. If late night downloads to this IP address are time-stamped the culprit almost certainly has to be me.
He has an affinity for downloading material that is extremely popular and high-risk.
Who owns the primary Internet account? Who holds the lease on the apartment? Who is the head of household? The responsible adult here?
If the answer to any of those questions is you, you have a problem, but you also - quite literally - hold the key to the solution. You can tell your roomate to stop and you can make it stick.
"High risk" suggests many possibilities. If your roomate is trading in hard core porn over your shared connection, a raid by the ICE or FBI is not out of the question.
You do not want to be caught up in anything like that, even as the presumptively innocent bystander.
Maybe not such a great marketing move. I wonder how Microsoft would react to much higher than expected numbers of Linux boxes. In the distant past, Linux was waved off on the desktop side as a hobbyist or novelty platform...
It doesn't matter whether you look at the webstats from Net Applications. StatCounter, W3Schools, or any other reasonably credible, recognizable, source.
It doesn't matter if you look at the global numbers or a breakdown by region.
The numbers for the traditional community-oriented Linux desktop distribution are all eminently lousy.
If these were the trend lines for your grandmother in hospital, the doctors would be telling you it is time to let go.
The fundamentals never change.
Apple and Microsoft hit the ground running in the late seventies and early eighties.
Collectively, they have sixty years of experience serving the needs of the non-technical end user and a 99% share of the desktop by most measures.
Amazon.com alone returns 79,000 hits in a search for "Windows software." Gog.com is republishing for Win 7 every MS-DOS and PC game it can its hands on. 300 or so to date.
It is damn hard to compete with numbers like these ---
and it is time the geek learned that "Free as in Beer" is over-rated.
FOSS programs even remotely of interest to the masses are routinely ported to Windows or begin as native Windows apps.
To be perfectly blunt about this, the Linux repository has nothing in stock the typical Windows user doesn't already have or can find more easily elsewhere --- and he won't be moved by talk of ideological purity or political correctness.
It is not too much of a stretch to say that has become all but impossible to fund or staff development of a complex and truly compettive desktop application without the port to Windows.
97% of the funding for the Moz Foundation comes from the add-click. From its placement on the Windows desktop, for all practical purposes.
...as long as it works, who cares how many people use it?
It becomes much easier to attract money and talent if your "product" has a market of some measurable size.
The Moz Foundation gets 97% of its funding through the add-click --- from its placement on the Windows desktop, for all practical purposes.